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CFO: Fight Like A Farmer.

2010/12/11 10:33:00 37

The identity of managers and decision makers requires CFO to have excellent professional capabilities.

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Leadership, teamwork and other comprehensive abilities.

However, the acquisition of these capabilities is not a single day or a temporary task. It requires long-term and continuous input.

Lifelong learning, needless to say, possesses the "farmer spirit" as a necessary condition for the throne of chief accountant.

Jim

Collins

In the book "from excellence to excellence", through the study of more than 1000 outstanding enterprises, it is found that 11 companies, which are "excellent", are strikingly similar. The process from mediocrity to excellence is a gradual process.

He likened this process to a man turning a huge flywheel.

"He pushed slowly and almost without effect.

The spectators thought he was doing nothing but he felt that the wheel had a bit of inertia and momentum.

One hundred laps, two hundred laps.

Suddenly, at some point, others, and himself, were surprised to find that the speed of the wheels increased significantly.

This gradual process seems to be doing "useless work", which is very similar to the farming process of farmers.

Farmers earn their returns through continuous investment. They have no choice but to make quick progress, do not rely on luck, be practical and diligent, and strive for sustained survival and development by paying first and getting the rewards again.

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Farmer

Correspondingly, hunters.

Hunters acquire resources in a quick and decisive way, and seek survival and development through one-off hunting. After hunting the target, they will leave.

Perhaps, when we finish a task, we can be a hunter; but when it comes to business, whether it is a business enterprise or a personal career, being a farmer instead of being a hunter is a prerequisite for success.

Especially in the accounting profession.

Financial work is boring for many people. Dealing with numbers day after day is easy to create fatigue and boredom.

At the same time, accountants are also known as "getting older and more popular". Accountants can easily get certain positions if they have certain qualifications.

At this time, some people will "linger on the landscape halfway up the hill" and even lose their original dream.

Like a farmer, this covers many aspects of CFO, such as dedication, such as perseverance, such as diligence, such as being able to endure loneliness and eating bitterness.

In the 80s of last century, the young man Zhuang of Luqiao finance office was sent out to Africa. In order to ensure the normal operation of the site, he boldly shot the bullet to the bank.

Nowadays, the young man has grown up to be the chief accountant of China Railway Construction Limited by Share Ltd. He is also known as "one of the top executives of the central bank who manages the most money".

Zhang Zhifang, who was deeply influenced by his father, regards accounting as his career ideal since his childhood. Although he has changed 8 jobs in 29 years, he has never left the land of the financial side.

Today, he is the chief accountant of Kailuan Group.

For 20 years, Zuo Zhipeng, who was deeply rooted in Huamao, said with a smile that the idea of dealing with a pile of numbers all day long has become simple and pure.

Today, he is the youngest chief financial officer of Anhui Huamao textile Limited by Share Ltd.

There are many similar examples.

CFO's low-key, implicit and restrained characteristics make it easy for us to associate with a typical farmer.